Review #1204; Rum #518 This release is a bottling done as a collaboration between Velier and National Rums of Jamaica, the umbrella company for Clarendon and Long Pond. This is a molasses based rum that was distilled in a pot still in 2007 using dunder and muck at Long Pond to make a high ester […]

Review #1203; Rum #517 Here we have yet another bottling from the Krassel brothers, 3rd generation distillers located in Santa Maria Tlalixtac in the mountainous Cañada region of Oaxaca, Mexico. This rum is a 50/50 blend of distillate from their custom Krassel still and a copper pot still. After being distilled the Krassel still spirit

Review #1202; Rum #516 Here we have a botting of rum from the closed Courcelles distillery. This bottling came from the last year of production, which occurred in 1972 not at the original distillery but at the Sainte-Marthe distillery where the stills were moved. It aged for 49 years in French Oak before being bottled

Review #1201; Rum #515 Here we have a bottling done by the Velier brand in partnership with a distiller on the island of Reunion (I would guess Savanna but it could be multiple). This molasses based rum is a blend of 3 traditional rums, a 10, 12, and 15 year rum. The other component is

Review #1200; Rum #514 Here we have a special release, the first in the Mount Gay Single Estate series. This rum was made from 100% molasses grown at the Mount Gay Estate in St Lucy Barbados. This rum was made from cane harvested in 2016 and 2017. The rum was made into molasses that was

Review #1199; Rum# 153 This is a sample I received blind, took my notes, and then was revealed the bottle. Here we have a sample of a Appleton Hearts bottling. This rum is a long aged molasses rum from Appleton Estate bottled in partnership with Velier. This rum was distilled in 1994 from molasses on

Review #1198; Rum #512 Here we have a single cask of rum from Trinidad Distillers Limited. This rum was distilled from molasses on a column still in 1999. It then aged in oak till 2020 when it was bottled at a high proof for The Whisky Cask Company. This was likely aged mostly in Europe.

Review #1197; Rum #511 Here we have a bottling that came by way of dependent bottler Habitaiton Velier working with that new distillery on Grenada, Renegade. Here, Habitation has bottled a blend of rums distilled from fresh press cane juice that aged for 3 years on Grenada in a combination of ex-French oak and new

Review #1196; Rum #510 Here we have a something rather interesting; a friend was a kind enough to grant me a sample of this which, according to the auction sites, is a Jamaican rum from A.A. Baker & Co that was bottled in the 1970’s. To that end, outside a Lone Caner review and some

Review #1195; Rum #509 This is a single cask of rum from Trinidad bottled by Rhum Attitude. This rum was distilled from molasses on a column still at Trinidad Distillers Limited in 2005. It aged for 10 years in an ex-bourbon cask in Trinidad before being shipped to the UK where it aged for another